| beguiler | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: charmer |
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| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
| beguine | (noun) a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba | - |
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| (noun) music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance | - |
| begum | (noun) a Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan | - |
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| beheading | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: decapitation |
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| (noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: decapitation |
| beholding | (noun) perception by means of the eyes | Synonyms: seeing, visual perception |
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| beige | (noun) a very light brown | Synonyms: ecru |
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| beigel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: bagel |
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| beignet | (noun) a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar | Synonyms: French fritter |
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| being | (noun) a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently | Synonyms: organism |
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| (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: beingness, existence, face of the earth |
| beingness | (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, existence, face of the earth |
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| belching | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, burp, burping, eructation |
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| (noun) the forceful expulsion of something from inside | - |
| beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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| believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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| belittling | (noun) the act of belittling | - |
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| (noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
| belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
| belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
| belligerent | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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| belling | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| bellowing | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| belonging | (noun) happiness felt in a secure relationship | - |
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| belongings | (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: holding, property |
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| belting | (noun) the material of which belts are made | - |
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| beluga | (noun) valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas | Synonyms: Acipenser huso, hausen, white sturgeon |
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| (noun) small northern whale that is white when adult | Synonyms: Delphinapterus leucas, white whale |
| bending | (noun) the act of bending something | - |
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| (noun) the property of being bent or deflected | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion |
| (noun) movement that causes the formation of a curve | Synonyms: bend |
| benignancy | (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignity, graciousness |
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| benignity | (noun) a kind act | Synonyms: kindness |
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| (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, graciousness |
| berating | (noun) a severe rebuke | Synonyms: blowing up |
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| berg | (noun) a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier | Synonyms: iceberg |
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| bergall | (noun) common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States | Synonyms: cunner, Tautogolabrus adspersus |
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| bergamot | (noun) small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery; Italy | Synonyms: bergamot orange, Citrus bergamia |
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| bergenia | (noun) any plant of the genus Bergenia; valued as an evergreen ground cover and for the spring blossoms | - |
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| beseechingness | (noun) The state or quality of one who begs or implores. | - |
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| besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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| (noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
| besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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| bettong | (noun) short-nosed rat kangaroo | - |
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| beverage | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: drink, drinkable, potable |
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| bhang | (noun) a preparation of the leaves and flowers of the hemp plant; much used in India | - |
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| bibliographer | (noun) someone trained in compiling bibliographies | - |
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| bibliography | (noun) a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.) | - |
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| bickering | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| bicycling | (noun) riding a bicycle | - |
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| bidding | (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: summons |
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| (noun) (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make | Synonyms: bid |
| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, command, dictation |
| bigamist | (noun) someone who marries one person while already legally married to another | - |
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| bigamy | (noun) the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred | - |
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| (noun) the state of having two spouses at the same time | - |
| bigarade | (noun) any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock | Synonyms: bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orange |
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| bigeye | (noun) red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales | - |
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| biggin | (noun) a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin | - |
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| bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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| bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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| bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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| bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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| (noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
| (noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
| (noun) a loop in a rope | - |
| bigness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: largeness |
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| bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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| bigos | (noun) a Polish stew of cabbage and meat | - |
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| bigot | (noun) a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own | - |
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| bigotry | (noun) the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot | - |
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| bigram | (noun) a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system | - |
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| bigwig | (noun) the most important person in a group or undertaking | Synonyms: kingpin, top banana |
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| bilge | (noun) where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom | - |
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| (noun) water accumulated in the bilge of a ship | Synonyms: bilge water |
| bilges | (noun) in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side | - |
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| bilgewater | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| bilingual | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingualist |
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| bilingualism | (noun) the ability to speak two languages colloquially | - |
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| bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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| billabong | (noun) a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high | - |
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| (noun) a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently | - |
| billing | (noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: charge |
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| billingsgate | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: scurrility |
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| biltong | (noun) meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun | - |
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| binding | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, dressing |
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| (noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, book binding, cover |
| (noun) strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration | - |
| (noun) one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall | Synonyms: ski binding |
| (noun) the capacity to attract and hold something | - |
| binge | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: bout, bust, tear |
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| (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: orgy, splurge |
| binger | (noun) someone addicted to crack cocaine | Synonyms: crack addict |
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| bingle | (noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base | Synonyms: single |
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| bingo | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: beano, keno, lotto |
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| binturong | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, bearcat |
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| bioclimatology | (noun) the study of effects of climate on living organisms | - |
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| bioengineering | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: biotechnology, ergonomics |
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| biogenesis | (noun) the production of living organisms from other living organisms | Synonyms: biogeny |
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| (noun) production of a chemical compound by a living organism | Synonyms: biosynthesis |
| biogeny | (noun) the production of living organisms from other living organisms | Synonyms: biogenesis |
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| biogeography | (noun) dealing with the geographical distribution of animals and plants | - |
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| biographer | (noun) someone who writes an account of a person's life | - |
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| biographism | (noun) reduction of textual meaning to authorial biography. | - |
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| biography | (noun) an account of the series of events making up a person's life | Synonyms: life, life history, life story |
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| biologism | (noun) use of biological principles in explaining human especially social behavior | - |
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| biologist | (noun) (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms | Synonyms: life scientist |
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| biology | (noun) the science that studies living organisms | Synonyms: biological science |
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| (noun) all the plant and animal life of a particular region | Synonyms: biota |
| (noun) characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms | - |
| biotechnology | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: bioengineering, ergonomics |
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| (noun) the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes | Synonyms: biotech |
| birdcage | (noun) a cage in which a bird can be kept | - |
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| birdnesting | (noun) hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs | - |
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| birdsong | (noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdcall, call, song |
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| birefringence | (noun) splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly | Synonyms: double refraction |
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| birling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: logrolling |
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| birthing | (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birth, giving birth, parturition |
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| birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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| (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
| bitewing | (noun) a dental X-ray film that can be held in place by the teeth during radiography | - |
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| bivouacking | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: camping, encampment, tenting |
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| blackening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: darkening |
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| blackguard | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: bounder, cad, dog, heel, hound |
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| blacking | (noun) a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear | Synonyms: shoe polish |
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| blackleg | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: rat, scab, strikebreaker |
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| blacktopping | (noun) a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock | Synonyms: blacktop |
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